The 78 tone is not far from the 80 tone, actually; one of my favorite Weir tapes is the audience from 1-20-79 at Shea's Theater in Buffalo. That has that same sound to it that I recall from Radio City.

So, some compression, EQ midrange emphasis, and what, a flanger?

It always seemed to me that somehow the flanger or the phaser or whatever wasn't really sweeping, but seemed to be controlled by his attack. Or, at least, I never really heard it sweeping.

I do know that you can take a phaser or flanger in the AxeFX and easily modify it so instead of sweeping it would just stay on the point you choose it in the sweep. Or have it go somewhere in the sweep depending on the envelope.

I'd need some fairly specific information on the preamp and speakers, as well, from that era. I've never researched it. And which guitar to use ... besides the Tiger, I have a Suhr Strat, PRS Custom 22 and a Tele.

To me, Weir's sound in '77, '78, '79 are quite different with '78 being a transition year. Basically, he starts out the year using Ibanez Super 80 pickups one guitar and ends the year using Dimarzio pickups on a different guitar. I also think that starting in 1979, his sound is more 'processed'.

Amp - either a MkI Boogie or maybe the preamp of Deluxe Reverb.Tonestack - a smidge of bass, lots of highs, enough bass to balance out the toneEQ - hi pass over 150, lo pass under 9kcomp - just enough to actually get it compressing, no moreflanger (has to be one of the multi-knob models) - medium speed, some regen, med-low fdbk, about a 1/3 mix

Guitar wise I'd go for guitar where you can setup your pickups to parallel

Adding in other FX the Dist on the 700 is like a TS with less mid hump and the Phase is like a P90.

This, from dozin's site, seems to confirm what my ears are telling me:

"Bob also uses a Cutler-built custom pedal that remotely controls the electronics on the rack and is a combination phase and wah-wah. He can have it either phasing, wahing, or a mix of the two. When he move the pedal from back to forward, both the wah and phaser go up in tone. Most phasers use an oscillator that sweeps back and forth, but this replaces the oscillator with a footpedal."

At that point he was also playing through 8 10" Gauss speakers with a solid state Godzilla power amp and an IVP preamp.

So, with the right phaser built in the AxeFX, and with the sweep parameter assigned to my expression pedal ... some EQ and compression ... and maybe the custom K110 IR's I have for the AxeFX ...

Back around 1980 I had one in a rack with a Furman RV-1 Reverb and a Crown DC150A Power Amp pushing two Altec Lansing 12s in HT homebrew cabinet.

I used a Strat with DiMarzio FS-1 pickups and got a great sound. I finally ditched it for a simple Fender combo because the IVP was broken about 50% of the time. Bad solder joints all over the thing.

The first couple of weekes I had that rig with the IVP the only tone I could get was crap! After working with it for some time I got it dialed in and really liked the tone. Very unreliable however, so ...buh bye.

Back around 1980 I had one in a rack with a Furman RV-1 Reverb and a Crown DC150A Power Amp pushing two Altec Lansing 12s in HT homebrew cabinet.

I used a Strat with DiMarzio FS-1 pickups and got a great sound. I finally ditched it for a simple Fender combo because the IVP was broken about 50% of the time. Bad solder joints all over the thing.

The first couple of weekes I had that rig with the IVP the only tone I could get was crap! After working with it for some time I got it dialed in and really liked the tone. Very unreliable however, so ...buh bye.

That seems to be the consensus - spend more time tweaking than actually playing

"Bob also uses a Cutler-built custom pedal that remotely controls the electronics on the rack and is a combination phase and wah-wah. He can have it either phasing, wahing, or a mix of the two. When he move the pedal from back to forward, both the wah and phaser go up in tone. Most phasers use an oscillator that sweeps back and forth, but this replaces the oscillator with a footpedal."

At that point he was also playing through 8 10" Gauss speakers with a solid state Godzilla power amp and an IVP preamp.

So, with the right phaser built in the AxeFX, and with the sweep parameter assigned to my expression pedal ... some EQ and compression ... and maybe the custom K110 IR's I have for the AxeFX ...

The female singer in my JGB project is friends with Cutler, and I asked him if he had a schematic for that custom Phase/Wah he built for Weir. He was kind of elusive about it, but he remembered it and mentioned that he was thinking about getting into the boutique effects building game and that would be one of his offerings.It would be great if he did. That pedal was a key component of Weir's mid 80's rig.........I remember being front row in Hamptom in either 86 or 87 one night when they did Althea and Weir's foot was on that rocker pedal for the whole song. So if anyone is wondering what that pedal sounds like (at least in one fashion, because I believe it was VERY versatile) listen to Althea's from the aforementioned period.

.......................................................have you heard the one about the yellow dog?